The Class of 2015 exuded determination to transform the future as close to 15,000 received their diplomas during Miami Dade College's recent commencement ceremonies. Among the many stellar graduates this year were these eight outstanding scholars.
The unique intellect of Kendall Campus Honors College student Brittany Robbins is being noticed far beyond Miami Dade College. She was one of only 90 students throughout the country selected to receive the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, which will cover the full cost of tuition up to $40,000 annually. Robbins wants to eventually earn a Ph.D. in clinical psychology.
"I know I want to help children, especially those who have suffered through traumatic experiences," she said.
While at MDC, she participated in several significant academic experiences, including MDC's Salzburg Global Seminar in Austria in 2014 and the Clinton Global Initiative University earlier this year in which she proposed creating a nonprofit organization for survivors of sexual violence.
Robbins also coordinated various campuswide events regarding eating disorders and participated in a walk in support of victims of domestic violence. This summer, she is taking on an ambitious 10-week internship at the University of Kentucky, conducting extensive research on the effects of alcohol on children and families.
Pierre Carrión's time in the U.S. has been short, but he has built the start of a promising academic career in just a few years' time.
Carrión, who moved to Miami from Ecuador after high school, began his college studies at Hialeah Campus in the English as a Second Language (ESL) program and was later admitted to MDC's Honors College Dual Language Program at InterAmerican Campus as a result of his hard work and academic achievements. He simultaneously held down an almost full-time job to help support his ailing mother.
"It's not easy to balance everything, but the time-management skills we learned in the Honors College are key," Carrión said.
Carrión served as president of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and under his leadership, the chapter accomplished several firsts and more than doubled its membership. As a result, Carrión was recognized with the MDC Outstanding Student Organization Leader Award.
Planning to attain an MBA, Carrión wants to eventually start his own consulting business. He was the second of four MDC students selected to receive the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
Carrión will spend the summer honing his accounting skills as part of an internship with Libra Group, an international business conglomerate.
Juan Valdes' college résumé reveals a clear theme: Whether it's raising awareness about human trafficking, providing meals to the homeless or ensuring local constituents have their voices heard, he has spent his time at MDC focused on helping others.
Valdes served as vice president of Wolfson Campus' Human Rights Alliance, where he helped organize local participation in the national One Billion Rising rally to end human trafficking and the abuse of women worldwide.
As part of his internship in the office of Florida Rep. José Félix Díaz, Valdes is responsible for reporting on the results of constituent surveys and helping residents get connected with social programs they may need.
Valdes – a history major – is considering law school in the future after getting a feel for the political realm as part of his internship.
Topping off his achievements, Valdes was one of the impressive total of four MDC students this year who received the coveted Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship.
Finishing her degree in biology has put Eleana Parajón one step closer to her goal of becoming a neonatologist, an ambition she has had since sixth grade when a family friend's son was born prematurely.
Visiting the hospital regularly with her mother, she witnessed from afar how the neonatologists saved his life, and she became determined that one day she, too, would do the same for other babies.
"I've known that I wanted to be a doctor since I was a little kid, but it wasn't until I saw them treating Gabriel that I knew I wanted to be a neonatologist," she said.
After high school, she turned to MDC's Honors College as the stepping stone to medical school. Studying at North Campus, she tutored her peers while serving as a Student Government Association senator, a Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) officer, an officer of the Pre-Med Pre-Pharmacy Club and director of PTK's Honors in Action program, which this year involved a scholarly project on invasive species.
Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, which she won.
With a scholarship offer in hand from Boston University, the Honors College graduate will head to the East Coast in the fall and sees herself with an MBA in just a few years.
"I am really interested in the private sector and want to be working with a corporation or consulting on business issues in Latin America or the Caribbean," said Alvarez, who is completing an internship with MasterCard this summer.
In addition to her outstanding academic record, she participated in the Inside Washington seminar with her peers from the Honors College. The small delegation from Miami Dade College travels to the nation's capital each winter to see government at work firsthand. During their visit and intensive study program in D.C., they meet representatives from the three branches of government.
"We had a conference with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, which was incredible," Alvarez said. In addition, she traveled to Austria with the Honors College for their insightful Salzburg Global Seminar, which focuses on developing students' sense of global citizenship.
Alvarez also found time for numerous service activities. She is the co-founder/engagements committee leader for Pencils of Promise (PoP), a club that increases educational opportunities in the developing world.
Focusing his studies on drama at Wolfson Campus, Honors College graduate Miles Bryant is looking ambitiously at the next step of his academic career at the University of Southern California, which offers very unique opportunities for actors due to its proximity to the nation's epicenter of the film industry.
This spring, Bryant performed with Wolfson Campus' Opera/Musical Theatre Ensemble in their production of In the Heights. He also has acted in a number of other presentations, notably Words, Words, Words by the Tony-nominated playwright David Ives. "That was the most difficult piece I have performed so far," he said.
If the demanding coursework along with the rehearsal and performance itinerary of a student-actor weren't enough to fill his schedule, Bryant also served as president of the Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) honor society, was presented a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for his numerous hours of helping others and took on the demanding job of editor of Wolfson Campus' award-winning literary magazine Metromorphosis.
As much as Bryant loves acting and the literary arts, his aspirations range far beyond the stage and writing. Motivated to social and environmental activism during his time at MDC, he hopes to parlay a successful dramatic career into a platform for change.
Graduating with a perfect GPA was a notch on the academic belt for Honors College student Lucas Bowe that he topped only by receiving the coveted MDC Board of Trustees Scholarship at North Campus' commencement ceremony.
Bowe fielded numerous acceptance letters from a wide range of schools, but the University of Florida ultimately got his nod of approval due its exceptional research program and its strong engineering department.
A member of Phi Theta Kappa and the Math Club, Bowe put his academic strengths to good use helping his fellow students by working as a peer tutor in math and chemistry during his time at MDC.
He credits MDC faculty with motivating him toward success, in particular physics professor Juan Catala.
Growing up poor in La Ceiba, Honduras, Alicia Ciliezar longed to go to college in the United States. MDC – combined with her hard work – made that dream come true this spring when she completed an associate degree with impressive academic marks.
Ciliezar has a long list of MDC accolades that culminated in her receiving the prestigious Board of Trustees Scholarship from Hialeah Campus. She served as president of Phi Theta Kappa honor society and a student ambassador of MDC's Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy. Her extensive service to the community, including work with the Women's Breast Health and Heart Initiative, earned her the esteemed Mitchell Wolfson Scholarship and President's Volunteer Service Award.
Ciliezar aspires to attend medical school and then one day become a behavioral psychologist.
Ciliezar wants to instill this determination to succeed in others by someday creating an organization that inspires girls to excel in the same way that she did at MDC.


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Sheep is a livestock animal from the Bovidae family, originating from a wild sheep. It is believed that sheep were the first animals domesticated by human beings as early as 11 thousand years ago. At the beginning the sheep were kept in the mountainous and steppe areas to obtain milk, meat and skins. At present they are mostly bred to obtain wool. There are many kinds of domestic sheep that occur in variety of environments.


We want to share our history with you!
Our annual Illumination Slide Show highlights a different theme of local history each year, brought to life through photos from our archives that entertain audiences and give them a glimpse of days gone by.
In August and September, the Museum hosts a series of speakers who share their knowledge with audiences on a variety of topics during our Summer Speaker Series.
During our Historic Pub Crawl, held every summer, participants visit three local drinking establishments and learn about their history, all while enjoying libations, good company and great stories.
Crested Butte Community School K-5th grade students participate in annual guided field trips to the Museum where they learn about different aspects of local history.
This summer, the Museum and the Crested Butte Community School are collaborating to offer our inaugural Junior Docent Program. During this three week program, 3rd to 5th graders will learn about local history and then share their knowledge with Museum visitors as "Junior Docents."


Post-Modernist Zhong Biao's eclectic paintings demonstrate a kind of mastery overunrelated objects and events by depicting them simultaneously within a single canvas.His earlier paintings consisted of beautiful combinations of unrelated emblems, such asan urban girl and Tang figurines with chimney smoke and a flying crane. These paintingsexplored social transformations through psychological plays of the human subjects. Overthe past decade, at times of rapid economic development, Zhong Biao captures bothpleasures and disadvantages of materialism with his technical flair as he renders the goodlife many Chinese experience in a continuum with the past. More recently, the artist'sworks showa clear exploration of philosophical problems with the addition of abstractand metaphysical elements. Images from everyday life such as cars, highways, and urbanlandscapes, as well as people and inanimate objects, are juxtaposed with exaggeratedbrushstrokes and what looks like explosions of colour in mid-air. His works are incessantreminders of his personal existence in a modern Chinese society and identity as a citizenin a global community.


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'The Beatles: Rock Band' Gets Release Date
The Fab Four will make their video game debut this fall. Click here for more!
Larry Fitzmaurice // March 5, 2009
John, Paul, George, and Ringo are coming to a living room near you!
A Beatles-themed installment of the Rock Band video game franchise hits stores September 9, marking the first-time the band's music — or likeness — has appeared in a game. The game "takes players on a journey through the legacy and evolution of the band's legendary career," and will be available for XBOX360, Wii, and Playstation 3 gaming consoles.
The Beatles: Rock Band will also offer a limited number of instruments modeled after those used by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The tracklist has yet to be announced, but with Giles Martin, son of Beatles' producer Sir George Martin, as the game's Music Director, the Fab Four's catalog is in good hands.
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I am part of the generation that goes Boom! and have now entered the Dot Age. Although I live amicably with my Wisconsinite husband in a cross-cultural marriage (I'm from Texas), no one will pay me for that. So, for nine months out of the year, I instruct people. The other three months, I practice retirement. I find pleasure in coffee, dark chocolate, writing, drawing, Japanese calligraphy, and the children of my offspring. I would mention dark chocolate again, but that might be redundant, and I'm not sure chocolate goes well with redundancy. It's wonderful with coffee.
Hi, I wanted to return the visit and I'm glad I did. I am always surprised when I "meet" people who are writing every day, especially things that I enjoy reading. I can hardly keep up with trying to blog three times a week. I hope you keep up the blogging, because I'm looking forward to seeing what you have to say next.
What is the dot age? Department of Transportation? If it is I'm afraid of the vehicle we'll be riding in!!!
Thank you for the "like" hit at poemsandponderings, come back soon.
Dot Age = dotage. The time in which the mental facilities begin to fail….Where was I? Oh, hi there! Thanks for the visit and comment.
Thank you for checking out "Makeup Graveyard".
I've taken a preview of your blog and I LIKE it. Will be back soon.
Thanks for stopping by. Ill be back your way, too.
Glad you came over to meet me! I suspect, given my quick first visit here, that I am in the company of a like-minded (or at our Dot Age, is that like-mindless? 😉 ) woman! I'll enjoy perusing your blog further, in any event!
Like-mindlessness – wonderful word, that. Thanks for the perusal.
You were nice enough to like one of my posts so I thought I would come see you. I am glad I did. What fun reads. They not only made me laugh they also made me think–and I am all about thinking, you know.
Thank you for stopping by. Your post written on Wednesday for Thursday about Tuesday (is that right?) had me thinking. Was it written in the afternoon about the evening for the morning?
My dear fellow blogger, I have nominated you, in very good company if I do say so myself, for a Versatile Blogger Award. Now, I know perfectly well that some of you have previously been recognized with this particular honor, and I will not require you to follow the acceptance "rules" to the letter; frankly, on this my third receipt of this very welcome recognition it has taken me a couple of long days just to respond properly, whereas I don't struggle quite so much to write a fresh post a day under normal circumstances.
What I would like to suggest to each of you in response to this is that instead of doing the usual, you make a post one day soon that tells us what fed your drive to express yourself in a blog and your personal flexibility and versatility. Was it in your training to try to diversify and strengthen and deepen your skills and interests, were you born curious, or was it serendipitous? Is your family or educational background particularly creative, or were you the unique artistic one in the bunch? I'm interested in our sharing what shapes us as creative beings, and I think this VBA recognition is an appropriate time to take a breath and consider it.
And here's the link to your award conferral!
Well, then, the better to love you with, my dear!
I'm not really sure how to do this Versatile Blogger award. I've been mulling it over and looking at other blogs that you nominated to get some ideas. By the way, thank you for directing me to some great blogs.
Rather than tell seven things and nominate 15 others, am I to write about the what and why of my blogging? Or should I follow the protocol but include your request to share about the desire to create?
Your perpetually confused blog friend.
No worries, I think confusion is the cloud from whence most of my finest ideas emerge. 😉 Choose whatever response you wish! Since I'm conferring this particular honor I took the liberty of offering an alternative for those who have already been-there-done-that or would find it a more interesting challenge to share their raison d'etre. So feel free to do either, neither, both or something you find most exciting!
Thank you very much for subscribing to poemsandponderings so happy to have you join us in this experiment. I know that there will be something, sooner or later that you will enjoy. I'll keep trying. Thanks again.
Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment! You have a lot of material here I can come back to visit.
I love the way you write and will be back for a closer read during the week. Many thanks.
Thanks for commenting on http://www.thethistoryofthings.com. Not only did I appreciate the compliment, I also was led here. I like what you're writing and will follow you now. If you like, please consider returning the favor. Could use the friends.
Thanks, gabe. I thought you had some excellent stories on your post. I will definitely be following.
Thanks for your kind remarks on my rabbi blog http://tinyurl.com/83xr3w7. I've read through all your great comments and signed up to get your dailies. I like knowing you enjoy the offspring of your children.
Thank you, myrahmcilvain. The offspring of offspring are one of the delights of old(er) age.
I'm so glad I finally got around to returning the blog visit. I admire your dedication to blogging and your easy breezy style. You had me in tears tonight (in a funny way) when I read your Pink Floyd post! Keep up the great writing!
Thanks, Pat. For someone who writes as well as you do, I take that as a great compliment.
Chocolate works well too, even if it's native to Mexico rather than Texas.
Thank you for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award. I am always amazed that anyone likes to read my stuff. I enjoy your blog because it's down to earth and real. If you served chocolate with your posts, I would propose!
I'm glad you have been enjoying the writing. I appreciate that you read and comment. Thank you.
What can I say? You are one special lady…if I knew you in real life, I think we'd be very good friends!
Y'all rock. Ah'm signin' on, one Texan to another. Yayhoo on fresh press, helped me find ya, bless yer heart.
After you sign up, sit down a spell and let's talk.
Stumbled upon the Freshly Pressed! I LOVE this! I just read one post and decided I have to keep coming back for more. Coffee lover–yes. please. Keep up the good writing!
Thank you for the encouragement. Make yourself at home.
I'm in a cross-cultural marriage too! My husband is 4th generation Texan and now I'm living in Tokyo. Puns and wordplay are a sign of great intelligence.
As someone who appreciates a well-turned phrase and ingenious use of language, I enjoy your blog. Whenever I examine a book for possible inclusion in my school libraries, or write a review, if the title under consideration is a literary feast, it wins extra points. I only hope readers appreciate linguistic treasures as much as I do.
Thank you for your kind remarks. I'm glad you stopped by to read.
Thanks for following. I'm glad to you enjoy it.
Anyone who can write as well as you do and who loves chocolate as much as I do has to be relentlessly stalked …. So beware …. I'm following you.
For some reason, I feel like celery: stalked.
Enjoyed reading your delightful post on puns I found through Freshly Pressed. I'll be back to read more, but first I'm going to rummage through my pantry in search of some dark chocolate.
So glad you came by to read. Enjoy your chocolate.
Your blog is simply unique and whimsical. I find your pleasures similar with mine, and to mention quite healthy-intelligent too, in such a way.
Thanks for the compliments. Nice to meet someone with similar tastes.
Hello, fellow Texan! Love your blog!
I'm so glad you have enjoyed the posts. Since you have a sister in Texas, you don't have to turn in the next assignment. Check your syllabus.
This stuff seems to pour out of you and it's hilarious.
Thanks, Myra. I'm always surprised that people enjoy it.
I've just spent rather a long time reading your posts and I love them, and am now subscribed to your blog.
Thank you so much for reading and subscribing. You are welcome here.
I discovered your blog through a friend's friend's friend on Facebook and am enchanted. Unlike Eliza Doolittle, I could never be sick of words, and here, on your beguiling blog, I have stumbled upon a veritable cornucopia. The dark chocolate icing on the cake comes from discovering I'm not the only one who finds schadenfreude – the word that has no remotely adequate equivalent in English – so damnably difficult to pronounce.
Now that I have discovered this little piece of internet heaven, I am looking forward to many happy hours of brain-enhancing procrastination. I hope that you will do me the honour of visiting me at oldbagblogging.blogspot.com.
Thank you so much reading and commenting. I went over and checked out your blog. You have some very funny posts. I will visit again.
Thanks so much for your kind words – I'm adding your blog to my list of favourites.
Once again, it's awards time around here, and I am nominating you for the Sunshine Blog Award!
THE DEETS: Post the .jpg of the award in a post or somewhere on your blog; mention the person(s) who nominated you; answer the following questions; nominate up to 12 other bloggers and let them know they've been nominated!
Cecile's Writers passed on the ABC award to you!
Sofia, this reply is terribly late – how I missed several comments on the About page, I will never know.
I am (was) honored that you passed on an award to me. I have chosen to no longer participate in blog awards other than to say a big Thank You.
Jami, somehow I missed several comments on my About page. I am so honored by the award, but as I mentioned above, I have chosen to no longer participate in blog awards other to say Thank You.
Checking in here b/c I'm not sure how to get ahold of you tonight! I sent you an email two days ago? Regarding your gorgeous final copy? Did you get it? B/c I want to wrap up tonight!
I trust you got my email. It completely slipped what little mind I have.
Holly, I'm so glad you like that blog. It's an honor to receive awards but I have chosen not to participate in them. I hope you understand.
Thank you so much for thinking of me. I appreciate it.
I found you via Kathryn – Kiwi Sparks and have decided to following the meandering path of your stream of thought….Thanks for brightening my day and I'm sure the days of many others…and of course for the lessons you pass along just to keep the brain agile.
I have been following your blog for quite some time now, and finally have come to read "About" you! Better late than never, I suppose.
How funny that you hear Martha Teichner's voice when you read my blog; thank you for not hearing Daffy Duck.
I have pictures in my mind of what various bloggers look like, and I'm almost one hundred percent sure they don't look like that. I will not be dissuaded, however; I rather enjoy my delusions.
Tina, I am not accepting awards, but I do appreciate your kindness in offering this. Thank you for understanding.
ys – Before seeing the comment and reply directly above, I mentioned your blog in regard to some blog awards. I know everyone has a different take on these, and I've already sort of made a mess of the rules, so if you just want to let it pass, I understand. The point is that I really appreciate what you do here and I thought I would like to share that appreciation with others. Hope that's okay.
Thank you, Scott. I deeply appreciate the mention. If I did participate, I would certainly nominate you.
I just discovered your blog and I love it! I almost go boom, so I can relate!!! Keep posting!!!
Chocolate goes with *everything*. Coffee, wine, redundancy, heartbreak, true love, velociraptors. *Everything.* Glad to have found your blog!
I liked your blog, too. Sadly, I have never had chocolate with velociraptors; however, since I am a woman of a certain age, I could consider myself a dinosaur, so I could say chocolate goes well with all kinds of dinosaurs.
Hello, is the photo with the bird's nest hair you? I would love to use it in a short doc I am working on about 1960s Detroit music scene. Please let me know ASAP. Thanks!


The 90 foot missiles Iran is showing are for New York, Tel Aviv is too close.
I support PM Netanyahu, the Israeli and Jewish people. I believe the one true God, the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob will keep his word when he told Abraham he would bless those that bless him and his descendants and curse those who curse them. I fear for the trouble coming on my country. Besides Israel has been a very good friend of the USA who deserves to be treated as such.
PM Netanyahu can do better by ordering the aerial bombings of Iran's nuclear facilities at the same time he is addressing the US Congress. He can then ask Congress to declare war on Iran and participate in ending the existential threat to Israel forever. Go Bibi.
The tragedy is that 75% of US Jews voted for this guy KNOWING he hates Israel.
Equally as tragic is the assumption that jewish means anything for the 75% jews you write of.
Caroline, you are right, as usual. Thank you for sounding alarms. I share your columns with the people who read what I post. You are one of my favorites to share.
As clear as the case in favor of Netanyahu's speech can be put. There is a reality in the Obama V. Netanyahu conflict that includes a number of disagreements emanating from Israel as well as the United States. That's the fact underlining the drama being flung from the Administration and supporters of no-drama Obama at Netanyahu for having the gall to speak before Congress and possibly upset his deal with Iran. Let's face it, he's the only one who can.
Caroline's article is sane and lucid. But unless her messages are widely read or heard, her writings may end up addressing primarily intellectual circles. Towards a practical support to the PM Caroline must do more than only writing an opinion in the JP. As I don't live in Israel I am not aware of whether Caroline publishes her thoughts in the Hebrew language in popular newspapers, often being interviewed on the radio and on television. Otherwise her voice will not be heard by the most important sector of society that of the common people. Caroline is a talented political analyst and must find ways to have her reflections enter as many Israeli homes as possible.
I do not think she needs to be given advice. You may mean well but the attempt to think for her is insulting. You can not posibly have a concept about her daily struggles and difficulties, the overall reality of the situation. Heard about Latma for instance? Idle talk, and frankly, annoying, sorry.
Thanks for sounding the alarm Caroline! The "silent" ones as you call them should be called out as the cowards they are. It doesn't take much intelligence to make the call that a nuclear arms race in the Islamic world is about a bad idea as can be imagined. Those that remain as sheep acquiescing, with their voting rights intact, need to be humiliated somehow by someone. Thankfully by you.
Bibi may have erred on many counts. I have an impression he might have been more staunch in dealings with PA/Hamas w/o harming much international relations. There was absolutely no need to free terrorists. He certainly did not compromise on the single most important existential issue-Iran, and that justifies all.
To my mind it is ironic that Bibi's dad was a close associate of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, but seems not to have learned the lesson of Jabotinsky. In the early part of the 20th century Jabotinsky was highly critical of Chaim Weitzmann's policy of engaging British officials out of public view and never challenging publicly Britain's role in degrading the Jewish community in Palestine during the Mandate. And here Bibi avoids public criticism of Obama and to what end? Bullies need to be punched in the mouth. Obama is a bully. Were Netanyahu to publicly challenge Obama I think he would have the support of most Israelis and I know he would have the support of most Americans. Jabotinsky, in my mind, was proven to be right about Weitzmann's mistake in negotiating with the British in private. I guess History will decide if Netanyahu publicly confronting Obama's muddle-headed approach to Iran is the better approach.
here here she belongs there!!!!
As always, excellent article! I've always known that Bibi was just buying time on other issues. On Iran, time is running out.
As a semi-retired UK journalist (turned author) who's ploughed through millions of words, may I say this is one of the most focussed and important pieces I have ever read. We all have a serious responsibility to ensure that it's publicised as widely as possible.
In 1973, Golda forced American help, probably by threatening a nuclear strike on Egypt. The same tactic can work again, especially with the coward in the White House.
Israel is in need because of Netanyahu, not because of America or its President. Let Netanyahu stay home, mind his business, and fix Israel on his own. We Americans are fed up with him!
So we should just bomb the iranian nuclear works to smithereens. But the PM wants to try to persuade with words. He will unmask completely potus and then hopefully reduce iran to the dust it deserves.
No. We have no reason to do that as Americans. A bigger threat to us and 2 key allies is North Korea, and neither the U.S. nor the South Koreans nor the Japanese are crying for North Korean blood.
We are keeping a careful watch. And that is how we will work with Iran, albeit hopefully on better terms than with the unstable Mr. Kim.
What you do as americans is blame the representatives you place in office when you don't feel nice inside. Your leaders know they have no moral superiority to stomp on the snake so sooner or later it will bite you, and you, if your are still alive, will be the first one to cast responsibility on them.
Now tell your PM to mind his!
When you tell potus-chicago thug to stay the h-ll out of making deals with iran to keep us from dealing with them, I would be more then happy.
If he keeps his fingers out of it we won't be neutralizing one of his supposed allies, which is what his pretext is all about.
Don't you get it? This is about the U.S. as well as Israel...Who do you think the "Big Satan" is? It begins with a U. and ends with an S....We are in Iran's nuclear bomb sites as well as Israel and your impotent leader is making a deal to probably harm the U.S. in a very terrible way .Put aside your naive feelings and your dislike for Israel and come to grips with the fact that the U.S. is being led by an infantile,wimpish wet noodle who is endangering all of us because of his obscene attitude towards Israel and their Prime Minister. I might add that Benjamin Netanyahu has more courage and intelligence in his little finger than obama has in his whole body.
Yeh. Yeh. Yeh. A bigger threat to the U.S. and 2 close allies is North Korea.
And America needs Iran as a counter balance in the Middle East.
You may fed up but don't talk behalf of the American people.
It's the middle of the night in the US when you post.
Like many of our countrymen, I travel.
Right. "Arab-American" with principal residence in Beirut ? Tamarind is an Arab word, you might consider changing it to Grapefruitwalk if you want to sound American.
Tamarind is a fruit in Asia, not Beirut.
I do not reside in Beirut, although it is a nice place.
Why grapefruit? Apples, pears, or peaches are far better. So are Florida oranges, unless touched by Anita Bryant!
You have it the other way around: WE are sick of the damned Americans!
Good. Give us all that money back and all the military goodies, too. You can carry on without us.
Most of the money has already gone back to the US in payment for military hardware. Don't you know that?? I can guess why not.
I guess you don't want to admit that US companies are doing the same thing, as well as European companies? Just Israel.
No, we are sick of the libtards ruling America (many of them Jewish).
No. Pollard is an irrelevancy.


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The Second World War was a struggle, perhaps the most considerable collective struggle this country has ever experienced. …the determination to build a better world was as strong here as anywhere. Never again, it was believed, would we allow poverty, unemployment and the rise of fascism to disfigure our lives.
The central idea was common ownership, where production and services were to benefit all. The few should not get rich to the detriment of everyone else. It was a noble idea, popular and acclaimed by the majority. It was the Spirit of 1945.
These expectations were shaped in the conceptual frameworks of an ever-progressive development, albeit through different methodologies: the Hegel_marxist mythology of Aufhebung and founding of the new totality of Communism, the bourgeois mythology of a linear development of welfare and democracy: the technocratic mythology of the all-encompassing power of scientific knowledge; and so on.
If there is still faith in progress, the commitment to the welfare of all is no longer intrinsic to it, instead it's considered something to be jettisoned for the sake of continued momentum. Perhaps the dream of a better future for all was hijacked in the 1970s and 1980s, which is when, Mark Fisher suggested that "the slow cancellation of the future' got underway.
Now, with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, some argue that the meltdown of neoliberalism is writ large. When you look at rising homelessness, the crisis in the health service, and assess the impact of austerity and cuts on many services, it seems very possible that the welfare state that emerged during the post war era could be taken down with it.
of a formal attachment to the techniques and formulas of the past, a consequence of retreat from the modernist challenge of innovating cultural forms adequate to contemporary experience.
As people are harking back to the past, wishing to regain control and past greatness, we seem, paradoxically, to have reached a moment when both the welfare state that emerged out of the Second World War, and the collective visionary spirit that drove its construction, are no longer assured a place in our lives together. Instead of inspiring us to think afresh about what we could achieve by working together, the past is being invoked to serve narrow interests, fuel hatred and resentment and a slide deeper into xenophobia and defensive nationalism.
Perhaps in the permanent now of neoliberalism that Fisher wrote about, we must acknowledge both our loss and lostness. The past and its dreams have gone. The system and structures that were built out of the devastation of the Second World War have morphed and transformed and, like the political system and the economy, has failed many. In the midst of such loss, it's not surprising that our relationship to the future is also fractured. There were some who saw the vote to leave the EU as a determination to effect change, to refuse the status quo In this respect, the Brexit vote was a refusal of the direction of travel, an acknowledgement that neoliberalism wasn't serving up comfortable progressiveness to them.
Now another tenet of the post-war vision has been wrecked, there is anger and grief on both sides of the EU divide. At the moment, the vision of the future that's dominating shows unhealthy signs of regression, nostalgia and anxiety about what lies ahead wrapped up in a fragile bravado based on past success.
How do we regain a visionary spirit and the capacity to imagine a future that serves the common good? Back in Newcastle to reflect on last year's Hidden Civil War event, and staying again at Motel One, we discussed the framework we adopted based on the academic Valerie Fournier's argument that we need to provoke outrage against the current system, challenge inevitability and build alternative moral ecologies. We agreed that it was the third and final one that was the toughest to crack in terms of commissioning work.
The co-opting of the past should be resisted if we are to free up our imaginations and start a revolution of the mind that Micah White suggests is needed but we need also to acknowledge the profound sense of loss that is currently being played by many politicians. What emerged in this country after the war may have been flawed, but it was a remarkable feat given the devastation, loss and trauma that so many experienced during the years of conflict. Yet it is part of a healthy response to loss to gather up determination to embrace the future and build anew. To do that, you have to grieve and then be prepared to let go of the past. The Spirit of '45 was both an acknowledgement of the suffering and failures of the present and a collective leap of faith, an embracing of a future that people who had survived a devastating war dared to hope could be better. How do we prepare ourselves to the same?


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Sergeant Park Jingyoo was born in Hakam-ri, Unam-myeon, Imsil-gun, Jeollabuk-do, Apr. 2, 1945. He was assigned to 12th Company, 26th Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Sergeant Park Jingyoo died Sep. 9, 1968 in east of Jitan village (CQ 084 715), from wounds caused by friendly fire during an ambush action. He was buried at 21-1-2111 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetry.
Kim Oksik
Sergeant Kim Oksik was born in 561 Nonsan-ri, Baeksu-eup, Yeonggwang-gun, Jeollanam-do, Jan. 10, 1942. He was assigned to 12th Company, 26th Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Sergeant Kim Oksik died Oct. 29, 1968 in An Dinh(CQ 060760), from in battle with enemy during an ambush action. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit Hwarang. He was buried at 21-1-2145 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetry.
Kim Changjae
Staff Sergeant Kim Changjae was born in 252 Goseung-ri, Tanbu-myeon, Boeun-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Oct. 26, 1947. He was assigned to 12th Company, 26th Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Staff Sergeant Kim Changjae died Sep. 6, 1969 in Tay Son, Nui Dong Tre, from wounds caused by a booby trap explosion serving during Operation Jegal 6. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit Hwarang. He was buried at 19-3-2726 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetry.
Oh Heungyeol
Sergeant Oh Heungyeol was born in Jadong-ri, Jido-eup, Sinan-gun, Jeollanam-do, May 5, 19463. He was assigned to 12th Company, 26th Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Sergeant Oh Heungyeol died Sep. 30, 1969 in Phuoc Thanh, Nam Tang(CQ 056725), from wounds caused by a booby trap explosion during an ambush action. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit Hwarang. He was buried at 19-3-2747 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetry.
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Sergeant Lee Jeungdo(Oh Jeungdo) was born in Dojeon-ri, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, Jan. 11, 1945. He was assigned to 12th Company, 26th Regiment, Tiger Division and was dispatched to Vietnam; stationed in the area of Binh Dinh Province.
Sergeant Lee Jeungdo(Oh Jeungdo) died Sep. 30, 1969 in Phuoc Thanh, Nam Tang(CQ 056725), from wounds caused by a booby trap explosion during an ambush action. He was awarded the Order of Military Merit Hwarang. He was buried at 19-3-2742 graveyard in Seoul National Cemetry.


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Area / Town Centre Vision
Climate / Sustainability
Participation / Co-creation
Regional vision
Transformation employment areas
Vision for Hoorn city centre: an innovative process approach
Over one thousand Facebook reactions, numerous conversations with residents, members of the business community and visitors to the city centre during the City Centre Labs, and intensive collaboration with the municipality, have all helped shape this vision.
What does the future of the centre of Hoorn look like?
Hoorn, a former town of the Dutch East India Company, boasts a wonderful historic centre that is undergoing sweeping redevelopment. For example, the station area is being tackled and a big urban beach is under construction. Combined with social trends such as an ageing population, changing shopping behaviour and increasing popularity of town-centre living, this forces us to consider the future of the centre of Hoorn. Who lives there? What employment opportunities are available? How accessible is the city centre? And what are the concrete projects that the municipality plans to implement?
More space for flexibility
The historical character of the town centre is and remains the most important core quality. But Hoorn wants to create space for qualitative growth: more space for small-scale, well-integrated infill schemes and above all, more space for flexibility. The time has gone when a city centre was made up of a large shopping district surrounded by nothing but residential neighbourhoods. Hoorn wants to create space for mixed-use schemes, more dynamism and more space for new developments. A city centre that grows in response to urban needs. In addition, Hoorn wants to tackle public space. The centre of Hoorn remains easily accessible by car, but a crucial opening in the system creates lots of space for pedestrians and cyclists. Shared space is the point of departure in the city centre.
Intensive collaboration between the city and municipality
We have opted for an innovative process approach. We do not advocate planning in which the opinion of the 'populace' is solicited after decisions have been taken, but an intensive process shaped by innovative instruments. At its core is the 'week of the city centre'. During this week, Facebook polls are held every day. More than 1000 responses helped to shape this vision, which is the result of numerous conversations with residents, entrepreneurs and visitors to the city centre. That occurred not only digitally, but also is the form expert meetings and three 'city centre labs' held in special venues in the city. Another feature of note is that the vision was drawn up in close collaboration with the municipality: from the formulation of the vision to the elaboration of its substance. For example, the texts were mainly drafted by the municipality and the images produced by Urhahn.
A performance-oriented vision
The vision is aimed at implementation and concluded with a concrete list of measures that can be implemented from 2016 onward. This begins for example with the closing off (on a trial basis) of central areas such as Kerkplein. Moreover, the vision indicates how it can be carried through into municipal policy.
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The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is to research ways to reduce the risk of "on-street" grooming and sexual exploitation of young people.
The team, comprising CEOP staff and independent experts, will study patterns of offending, victimisation and vulnerability.
It will also consider the effectiveness of processes that might help to identify offenders and victims.
Findings are expected to be published within three to six months.
"We need to continue to build our understanding about the different types of threats faced by children across a range of environments," said CEOP chief executive Peter Davies, who commissioned the study.
"Child sexual exploitation is not exclusive to any single culture, community, race or religion – it cuts across all communities. Neither can it be simplified along ethnic lines where the victims constitute one ethnicity and offenders another.
He said recent events had prompted him to commission the study.
A CEOP spokesperson confirmed there would be no extra money or resources for this work.
The announcement follows nine arrests by Greater Manchester Police in Rochdale this week as part of an investigation into sexual exploitation.
Meanwhile, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is implementing a child protection delivery plan to help police work with agencies to better protect children and young people.
A police national database is also being developed to help agencies identify, assess, manage and eliminate risk.


Nimona has been in the ever-growing pile of "need to read" books on my shelf, and it finally came up next in my queue. I purchased it last year after hearing it was written and illustrated by the highly esteemed Noelle Stevenson (see: Lumberjanes) and that it would be made into an animated film. That is all I knew about the book when I cracked open the cover. Based on the cover art I assumed the story would contain the following: fantasy, strong female protag, comedy a'la Lumberjanes, and a dollop of sisterhood for good measure.
Nimona delivers our entire feminist wishlist on a silver platter. The title of the book is our protagonist's name, and Nimona herself is a prickly, vicious, whimsical, and complicated young woman who, for better or for worse, has been imbued with magical powers that exacerbate her understandable personal problems. The strength of her abilities ensure that no one can physically stop her, and it is only emotional appeal that will maybe sorta kinda work. Maybe.
Set in a sci-fantasy world where science and magic intertwine, the story opens with Nimona knocking on the castle door of villain Ballister Blackheart. She wants to be his apprentice, but the dynamic between them develops into part odd-couple and part parent-child relationship.
The story is fun, the ending is poignant, and the growth of the characters is meaningful. Stevenson achieves a beautiful balance of deep story-telling and dark comedy. Where the story really earns points for being "above and beyond general media" is with Nimona's characterization. Her origin story is tragic, and she is strong because she needed to be strong in order to survive. Like the abused animals you see in ASPCA commercials, you just want to reach out and nurture her back to emotional health.
That being said, I didn't like her; after all – she is a villain's apprentice! Nimona is not a role model, and that is exactly what makes her such a fascinating character. Stevenson takes complex villain writing to the next level.
You can find Nimona online, at your local comic book store, and even at Barnes & Noble. You can also download the audiobook on Audible. That's right: a graphic novel audiobook. According to rave reviews, the 2 hour 16 minute audio adaptation goes more in-depth than the comic and adds another layer to the story. Several reviewers recommend listening to the audio book while flipping through the novel itself.
Have you read Nimona already? Share your review in the comments.


Harry Partch purchased and adapted his first guitar in 1934 and used this instrument to create and perform two of his most recognized early works, Barstow and U.S. Highball. This instrument was fitted with raised stainless steel frets that were attached to a brass plate that was screwed onto the neck of the guitar. This modified fret board provided Partch with the ability to use just intonation for his early works. In 1945 he adapted his second guitar by attaching a smooth narrow fingerboard to the neck of the guitar and adding additional pinheads and brass rivets to the fret board to create a microtonal compatible instrument. That same year he also similarly adapted a Hawaiian guitar that utilized ten strings which provided him with a broader tonal range that could be used for his different music compositions. Join Chris Rainier in a special lecture performance that discusses Partch's varied use of the guitar in his early music compositions, and Rainier's efforts to recreate and learn to play Partch's microtonal guitar. For further information contact the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at 217-333-4577 or email sousa@illinois.edu.
This year Dance at Illinois celebrates the choreographic contributions our inventive faculty and students, both past and present, have made and will make to the field. We celebrate the life of Professor Emeritus, Beverly Blossom, by reconstructing one of her signature works, Brides. Blossom, a former dancer with Nikolais Dance Theater, was an extraordinary choreographer and performer renowned for her wit, humor, and elaborate props.
Recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, faculty artist Tere O'Connor will create a new work for students, fashioning a cloud of humans in constant motion as a continuation of his research.
Following premieres of work in Chile, New York, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC, celebrated resident dance artists Cynthia Oliver and Linda Lehovec will create new work for our students. Our choreographic distinction lies in our future, so we have invited undergraduate students Charles Gowin and Katherine Williams to represent the next voices in the field of dance. For further information visit http://krannertcenter.com/.
In 1868 the University of Illinois band became the first Land Grant Institution music ensemble of its type, one year after its founding as the Illinois Industrial University. In 1870 sixteen of the bandsmen petitioned the University Board for music instruction to help enhance the ensemble's performance so that it could serve as University's battalion band for campus commencements, building dedications, parades, and society events as well as various sporting events. The sixty-member band eventually performed at Chicago's Columbian Exposition on June 16, 1893, the same time as the John Philip Sousa Military Band gave its first performances at the same World's Fair. In 1908 A. Austin Harding became the first official director of the University of Illinois Band and began a life-long professional relationship with country's "March King" which eventually led to the creation of America's School Band Movement in 1920. Since its inception America's public school band movement and the country's collegiate band education system has been continually guided by the University of Illinois Band and its first four directors – A. Austin Harding, Mark Hindsley, Harry Begian, and James Keene. Join the Marching Illini in their special musical tribute during the Illinois vs Ohio State football game half-time show to honor the students, faculty, and legacy of the University of Illinois Band and its influence on American School Band Movement. Visit http://sousaarchives.org for more information.
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was a composer, music theorist, instrument maker, and performer whose vagabond nature inspired him to explore the musical roads less travelled by his contemporaries. Alex Ross wrote in 2005, "Of all the triumphantly weird characters who have roamed the frontiers of American art, none ever went quite as far out as the composer Harry Partch." Partch's maverick tendencies and his rejection of traditional Western-European performance practices inspired his experimental music creations which often integrated ancient Greek, African, and Japanese theatrical arts with innovative uses of human speech and musical pitch, harmony and rhythm. This exhibit explores through photographs, music and words the musical choices that mattered most to Harry Partch.
For more information, please visit http://archives.library.illinois.edu/sousa.
Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church, 102 N. State Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820.
Please join us for an evening of music for celebration and contemplation, featuring the Barber ADAGIO FOR STRINGS, Choral music of Gabriel Faure, a CONCERTO FOR ORGAN AND STRINGS by Canadian Denis Bedard and the MASS IN G by Franz Schubert.
Parking is available in the lot just west of the Virginia Theater on Park Avenue.
This concert is presented without charge, a freewill offering will be taken.
For more information check out www.emmanuelmemorialepiscopal.org or call 217-352-9827.
Amasong presents the concert "Brava: 25 Years of Music," featuring music premiered by the chorus over its quarter century. The concert will also be the world premiere of "Let it Matter" by American composer Dr. Elizabeth Alexander [http://www.seafarerpress.com/biography], written for Amasong's 25th anniversary.
The concert will be a homecoming for former musical directors and friends of the choir, including founding director Dr. Kirstina Boerger, past directors Meagan Smith and Deb Skydell, and New Oreleans funk/jazz singer and composer Lilli Lewis [http://www.lillilewis.com].
Founded in 1990, Amasong is a vibrant part of the music, feminist, and LGBTQ communities in central Illinois. Amasong sings music of women's experiences around the world and throughout history, drawing heavily upon diverse global folk music traditions. Over the last quarter century, the group has created opportunities lesbians and feminist women to gather together in the pursuit of musical excellence.
The chorus has performed hundreds of concerts, released 5 CDs [http://amasong.org/?page_id=73], and won national awards. Recently, Amasong hosted the Sister Singers Network festival of 450 musicians from women's choruses from across the United States and sang with That's What She Said to a full house at the Virginia Theater.


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Friends in Harmony Concert on Friday 23rd October at 7pm in St Aidan's Church, Solva. Tickets £6.50 including refreshments. Tickets available from Helen Phillips at Solva Surgery or on the door.
A Radio Wales SOLVA CARE report is scheduled for around 7:20 tomorrow morning on the Good Morning Wales programme (6 -9am).
Below is the link to GMW on iplayer. Each programme can be found there for a month after broadcast.
BBC Radio Wales covered on the SAVE SOLVA SCHOOL meeting and the report was broadcast the next morning on "Good Morning Wales". If you missed it the report can be found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06jlfwc#play at 1:54 into the programme.
Following on from last night's SAVE SOLVA SCHOOL "consultation" meeting it has been suggested not only to respond to Kate Evan Hughes, Sue Perkins and all County Council members (individual contact details on Save Solva School link below), but also Paul Davies, AM for this area, Stephen Crabb, MP for this area and Huw Lewis (AM) Welsh Assembly Minister for Education. It is time to drag the Welsh Assembly in to the fight.
There will also be a public meeting at Solva Memorial Hall at 6.30pm on Monday 26th October.
Places are limited (145) and need to be reserved in advance by phoning the County Council's contact centre on 01437 764551.
There will be a concert in St Aidan's Church, featuring local choir "Friends in Harmony" on Friday 23rd October at 7pm. Tickets £6.50, including refreshments, from Helen Phillips at Solva Surgery and on the door.
The Solva School Petition is available at Bay View Stores; everyone is encouraged to sign it – to help save the school!


For the second time, the PCA/ACA and Bowling Green State University are jointly sponsoring a summer research institute on the Bowling Green, Ohio campus from Sunday, May 21 through Thursday, May 25, 2017. This institute will introduce a small group of scholars from across the country and abroad to the research and pedagogical treasures of BGSU's very special collections.
The staff of these exceptional collections will assist institute participants in locating unique resources for use in their teaching and research in accordance with Fair Use guidelines. In addition, volunteer faculty scholars from both BGSU and PCA/ACA will lend their time and expertise to help participants with their own individual projects.
A limited number of $400 travel grants are available for participants.


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Rodrigo Perez-Garcia
is a chemist interested in tangential points of the arts and science, especially within Nanotechnology & Renewable Energy, Interfacial phenomena, Music, Art and Literature. Currently working at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (Germany), he holds a Erasmus Mundus Masters in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (The Netherlands -and Italy) and has conducted research residencies in Bristol (UK), Ispra (Italy) and Kyoto (Japan). As co-founder of Polyhedra (www.polyhedra.eu) Rodrigo coordinates and implements multi-disciplinary events like KLAS, catalysing connections between local realities and global cultures.
Caterina Benincasa
obtained her degree in Physics and Philosophy (UK) and specialized in Aesthetics & Theory of Contemporary Art (MD), History of Science (MD) and World Heritage Studies (MD). She has been visiting lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari (Italy), researcher in Contemporary Visual Art (France), researcher in Neuroaesthetics at Don Gnocchi Foundation (Italy), and recently worked for the 'Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space' research group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Germany). Her fascination for interweaving aspects of art and science led her to co-found Polyhedra.eu, for which she serves as director and treasurer. In 2013 she co-founded Innovate Heritage, an acclaimed research platform fostering knowledge exchange between the arts and heritage.
Arnau Horta
is an independent curator specialized in sound and multimedia art and has collaborated with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Sónar Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, CosmoCaixa, CaixaForum, La Casa Encendida and Fostering Arts and Design (FAD). He teaches at the IstitutoEuropeo di Design: IED and is a writer for the weekly cultural supplement Cultura/s (La Vanguardia newspaper). He holds a degree in Media Studies; MA in Theory and Aesthetics of Contemporary Art; MA in Contemporary Philosophy. Currently he is a PhD candidate in philosophy.
Renske de Jonge
MSc degree in Marine Biology and Science Communication & Education. She works as outreach officer at Science LinX – the science center of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Groningen University. She coordinates a network of secondary schools connected to Groningen University and the three universities of applied sciences in the north of the Netherlands. Within the outreach program, she collaborates with artists, designers, makers and scientists in the development of exhibitions, performances and other outreach activities to engage the public in current research and education of the faculty. She is programming several science festivals like the Groningen Night of Art and Science and the Groningen Researchers' Night.
Guillermo Santamaría
has been working in science communication and public outreach for the last 10 years. Along these years he has developed projects in many different formats, from TV to public events. He is currently working for "la Caixa" Foundation, where as curator of science outreach activities he shapes the science programming of the CosmoCaixa Science Museum and several other cultural centres. In parallel, he is working as content and communication manager on European projects. Before that, he has worked as printed media scientific journalist and on TV. He has a background on Biochemistry (degree), Molecular Genetics (ASD), Science Communication (MD), History of Science (MD) and Psychobiology (MD).
Katja Schulze
studied German, English and American language and literature at the University Potsdam and at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Since 2002 she is been responsible for press and public relations at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam.
Nathalie Singer – AiR jury January 27, 2017
Nicola Triscott – AiR jury January 24, 2017
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Walter Rauschenbusch is credited by many interpreters as the fountainhead of the social gospel in America. An American Baptist minister of German heritage, Rauschenbusch was the "prophet" of a movement that created a watershed in American religious thought. A theological educator, social activist, and church historian, Rauschenbusch is continually revisited a century after his death. This three-volume set makes available the original texts of a seminal thinker in an authorized and critical edition. Volume III brings together important texts of Walter Rauschenbusch, most significantly an unpublished book, "Christianity Revolutionary" first begun in 1891/92. This text was published under another title and with significant modifications. Here is the original, unaltered text for the first time. In addition, this volume contains Rauschenbusch's last major work, A THEOLOGY FOR THE SOCIAL GOSPEL (1917). This answered the call for a serious theological underpinning of the social gospel. Volume III includes three shorter publications of Rauschenbusch "The Kingdom of God," that defines one of his major principles, "The Value and Use of History," that reveals the premises of his vocation, and "Why I am a Baptist," a series of editorials that provided a timely apologetic for Baptist principles. As with the first two volumes, a select correspondence section contains poetry, selections from a summer journal, and letters from Gerald Birney Smith, Vida Scudder, and William H. P. Faunce. The most extensive bibliography for Walter Rauschenbusch has been assembled in this volume. It includes a first-ever listing of archival resources from North American and European collections that will suggest and enable further investigation of Rauschenbusch. The textual content of Volume III begins with a Theological Introduction prepared by William H. Brackney, eminent historical theologian of the Baptist movement. In his introduction, drawing upon hundreds of sources, Brackney accounts for American, English, and German influences on Rauschenbusch, including his famous "Kingdom" or "Basileic" theology.


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Q: Doubts in a code to test the use of assignment operator I am writing a code to test the use of assignment operator and copy constructor. The code is as follows:
#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;

class fun {
  int i;
  public:
         fun():i(1) {i=1;cout<<"in: cons\n";}
         ~fun() {cout<<"in: des\n";}
         fun& operator=(fun b) {
              cout<<"in: assignOp\n";
              swap(this->i, b.i);
              return *this;
         }
         fun(fun& b) {
              cout<<"in: copy cons\n";
              b.i = this->i;
         }
         void print() {
              cout<<i<<endl;
         }
};

main()
{
   fun A;
   fun B;
   B = A;
   A.print();
}

And here is the output of the code:

in: cons
in: cons
in: copy cons
in: assignOp
in: des
-1216991244
in: des
in: des

Now, there are 2 things that I can't understand about the output.
Firstly, why is the code going in the copy constructor function?
Secondly, why is the value of 'i' is being printed as garbage instead of '1'?
I am a newbie so excuse me if my doubt is obvious.

A: B = A;

This is causing the assignment operator to be called. The reason you see copy cons in the output is because your assignment operator takes its argument by value. So A is copied into the assignment operator function, which requires the copy constructor to be used.
Both copy constructors and copy assignment operators usually take their arguments by const reference.
The reason you get the garbage value is because you have this line backwards:
b.i = this->i;

It should be:
this->i = b.i;

Otherwise, your copy constructor copies the indeterminate value of this->i into the object you are copying from.

A:
Firstly, why is the code going in the copy constructor function?

The copy constructor is invoked when the argument is copied for the assignment operator. You're passing the argument to the assignment operator by value, instead of a reference:
fun& operator=(fun b)

instead of
fun& operator=(const fun& b)

Secondly, why is the value of 'i' is being printed as garbage instead of '1'?

In your copy constructor, you're assigning the wrong way around:
b.i = this->i;

instead of
this->i = b.i;

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Melancholy and sadness permeate the new exhibition at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Celebrated French artist Sophie Calle first displayed "Exquisite Pain" at the Hara Museum in 1999-2000 and it makes a welcome return 19 years later, just as powerful today as it was back at the fin de siècle.
Calle, an artistic polymath, appropriates text, photographs and memorabilia to narrate the story of her breakup with a partner in the mid-'80s. The first section of the exhibition is devoted to the countdown to the breakup with each art piece stamped with the number of days to her ultimate unhappiness. This part of "Exquisite Pain" is titled "Count down", with the second section named "Count up" as she shares her, and others', heartbreak and ultimate acceptance of their pain. The exhibition is a journey which takes the viewer from hope and love to misery and redemption.
It's a beautiful and seductive exhibition full of emptiness and dislocation. It takes the viewer on Calle's 92-day journey from Moscow to Japan on the Trans-Siberian railway where Calle was awarded an artist's grant for three months. The photographs, train tickets, polaroids, bank books and other mementos of her journey manifest pain and emotional torture as the countdown to her unhappiness begins. Calle is foremostly a photographer and writer. The love letters to her beloved (who goes on to betray her with another woman) are equally sweet as they are harrowing, given the viewer knows of the ultimate outcome. Calle's photograph of ravens, taken in Japan, bears an uncanny resemblance to the work of Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase's seminal "Ravens." Calle's work is equally foreboding and solitary as Fukase's impressionistic narrative.
Calle, while in Japan, looks simultaneously joyous and gloomy; there are snapshots of her looking disheartened in a tatami room which hint at her prescience of the breakup which is to come. "Exquisite Pain" makes both direct and veiled references to emptiness — images of an empty box, empty train seats and made and unmade beds. Most of the photography is in monochrome with the occasional pop of color such as the image of a Japanese breakfast of salmon, soup and sekigohan (sticky rice with red bean).
In the pieces titled "27 days to unhappiness" and "26 days to unhappiness," Calle captures atmospheric snowfall in Japan which reminds the viewer of French poet François Villon's famous line "Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?" (But where are the snows of our yesteryear?). Calle's work is tinged with melancholy and a desire to revert back to a period of youthfulness and happiness. In this exhibition she refers to Japanese charms and fortunes through images of omikuji (fortunes) and jizo statues (protective Buddha figures) which are crushing references to the idea of luck and the absence of children — Calle is outspoken about never having wanted any offspring.
"Exquisite Pain," is an utterly absorbing exhibition, an artistic palimpsest of pain. It's an homage to heartbreak, emotional suffering, human frailty and redemption. The return of this exhibition to the Hara Museum is justification that the themes in which Calle wallows are universal and can be viewed as both melancholic and triumphant.


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Towards a Devolution Backstop? UK government-devolved government relations after Brexit
Posted on April 11, 2019 by The Constitution Unit
Two years after the invocation of Article 50, Nicola McEwen analyses the state of relations between London and the devolved administrations, warning that if Brexit damages the autonomy of the devolved institutions without increasing their influence, relationships between the UK's territories may become ever more strained.
The Brexit process has undoubtedly brought about an upswing in engagement between the UK and devolved governments. Leaving aside the Joint Ministerial Committee (Europe) which since 1999 has met ahead of European Council meetings, there have been considerably more formal meetings between Scottish, Welsh and UK ministers in the 32 months since the 2016 referendum than in the 17 years of devolution that preceded it. In 2016, a Joint Ministerial Committee for EU Negotiations — JMC (EN) — was set up to foster intergovernmental collaboration and provide oversight of EU negotiations. Last year, a Ministerial Forum for EU Negotiations was set up to consider more detailed Brexit effects in particular policy spheres.
For most of the time since the referendum, Northern Ireland has not had a governing executive and so it hasn't had a voice in interministerial meetings. Ministers from the Scottish and Welsh governments, by contrast, have had ample opportunity to make their voices heard. Whether the UK government is listening is another matter.
The devolved governments have had most difficulty in influencing the UK's negotiating position with the EU. The Scottish government opposes Brexit in all forms – a position reflecting the big Remain vote in Scotland in 2016. The next best thing is continued membership in the EU single market and customs union. While respecting the narrow Leave majority in Wales, the Welsh government, too, has favoured continued membership in the single market and customs union. But, despite the JMC (EN) terms of reference committing the governments to seek 'a common UK approach' to Brexit, the devolved governments have had little impact in shifting the Prime Minister's red lines. The UK approach to Brexit, it seems, is the UK government's approach alone. Continue reading →
Posted in Brexit, Devolution, Europe | Tagged Article 50 two years on, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, devolution, European Union (Withdrawal) Act, European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, JMC, Joint Ministerial Committee, Nicola McEwen, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Scottish government, scottish parliament, Wales, Welsh government
Article 50: two years on
On 29 March, The UK in a Changing Europe published Article 50 two years on, summarising what has happened during the Article 50 process, where we are now, and what might happen in the future. Here, its director Anand Menon offers his own view of how Brexit has been handled since Article 50 was invoked by the government, and offers an insight into some of the topics contained in the report.
Two years on. So little progress made. As metaphors go, watching parliament hold a series of eight votes and fail to muster a majority on any of them was not too bad at all.
And yet, and yet. For all the outward signs of chaos emanating from Westminster, things are moving. It was never going to be easy for MPs to 'take control' of Brexit, if only because all they control even now is the parliamentary diary. Parliament isn't set up to make it easy for MPs to both set their own agenda and make decisions.
Moreover, it strikes me as slightly misguided to criticise the House of Commons for failing to come to a clear decision on Brexit. For on this if on nothing else, our MPs represent us faithfully. Like the public at large, they are deeply divided on the question of leaving the European Union, and therefore – again like us – it is not clear which if any of the possible outcomes a majority of them might agree on. Continue reading →
Posted in Brexit, Devolution, Europe, Parliament | Tagged alan wager, Anand Menon, Article 50, Article 50 two years on, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, Brexit party, Dan Wincott, Daniel Wincott, devolution, devolved powers, England, English parliament, English Question, House of Commons, House of Lords, meaningful vote, Nicola McEwen, parliament, UK in a Changing Europe
Citizens' assemblies: breaking the Brexit deadlock?
Posted on April 5, 2019 by The Constitution Unit
A week after the original date set for the UK to leave the European Union, there is still no firm plan for how to do so. The Prime Minister has sought a further extension of the Article 50 process, but it remains unclear how the different factions in the House of Commons can be brought together. Jim Gallagher argues that the citizens' assembly process might offer a way around the current impasse.
With parliament unable to agree away forward on Brexit, the only option other than 'no deal' is a long delay for the UK to rethink its approach. Europe is still open to this, but says it needs a 'strong justification'.
Citizens' Assemblies offer a new way to resolve the issue and help unite the country during that period.
A no plan Brexit and broken public trust
The Tory party's search for a quick, simple fix, largely driven by its internal needs, has defined the Europe debate so far. Contrast this with Harold Macmillan's decision to apply for membership in 1961, based on a deep and comprehensive analysis, or Labour's 23 volumes on whether to join the euro. Little wonder Westminster and Whitehall failed to secure a workable agreement, and that few members of the public find it possible to support the options now on the table.
This present deadlock is reason enough to bring the public back into the debate. But, more importantly, we have not just a government unable to lead but a public unwilling to be led. 68% of people now feel none of the main political parties speaks for them. 'Betrayal' and 'treason' are the everyday language of debate. Remain supporters say the referendum was won by lies and stolen data; Leave supporters feel robbed of a clean break with Europe.
A last minute compromise deal, with far-reaching economic and social consequences, conjured up behind closed doors in Westminster, will not get public acceptance from either Remainers or Leavers. People already deeply distrust the Brexit political process. Continue reading →
Posted in Brexit, Europe, Public Engagement and Policy Making | Tagged Article 50, Article 50 extension, Brexit, Brexit negotiations, citizens' assemblies, Citizens' Assembly on Brexit, Citizens' Assembly on Social Care, deliberative democracy, Further referendum on Brexit, Jim Gallagher, no deal Brexit
Unionism and the Conservative Brexit deal rebellion
Posted on February 1, 2019 by The Constitution Unit
This week, MPs voted in favour of renegotiating the parts of the Withdrawal Agreement that relate to the 'backstop'. The backstop and the land border between the UK and Ireland has been one of the most divisive Brexit issues for the Conservatives. Jack Sheldon and Michael Kenny discuss what this tells us about the party's attitude to the Union.
'Something ghastly called UK(NI) has been created. Northern Ireland will be under a different regime. That is a breach of the Act of Union 1800'. Owen Paterson MP
'I am concerned about the prospects of a Northern Ireland that risks being increasingly decoupled from the United Kingdom, and about how that could undermine the Union that is at the heart of the United Kingdom'. Justine Greening MP
'I would really like to support the deal of this Prime Minister and this Government, but the issue for me is the backstop. I served in Northern Ireland and I lost good colleagues to protect the Union. I will not vote for anything that does not protect the Union'. Sir Mike Penning MP
Concerns about the implications of the Irish backstop for the integrity of the domestic Union contributed significantly to the scale of the 118-strong backbench rebellion that led to Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement being defeated on 15 January, by the extraordinary margin of 432 to 202. Following a debate and vote on 29 January, the Prime Minister has now committed to seek legally binding changes to the backstop, in the hope that this might win over at least some of the rebels before the next vote.
What do the arguments that have been made about the backstop tell us about the nature of the 'unionism' that prevails in the contemporary Conservative Party? This is a pertinent question, given that the sincerity of professed support for the Union from Conservatives has regularly been called into question by academic and media commentators in recent years, with increasing numbers of critics suggesting that leading figures from the Tory Party have harvested 'English nationalist' sentiments and are willing to put the future of the Union at risk. Continue reading →
Posted in Brexit, Devolution, Europe | Tagged backstop, Between Two Unions, Brexit deal, Brexit negotiations, Conservative Party, Conservatives, Daniel Kawczynski, david lidington, Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, Irish backstop, Jack Sheldon, Justine Greening, Mike Kenny, Mike Penning, Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, unionism, unionists, withdrawal agreement
A second Brexit referendum looks increasingly likely: what key questions need to be addressed?
Widespread negative reactions to Theresa May's Brexit deal have focused increasing attention on a possible further EU referendum. With MPs appearing poised to vote down the Withdrawal Agreement, a referendum could provide a way out of the apparent deadlock. But how would it work in practice? Ahead of the parliamentary debate, Meg Russell and Alan Renwick summarise the conclusions of their recent report on this topic.
When the Constitution Unit published The Mechanics of a Further Referendum on Brexit in October, it was still unclear if the government would successfully reach a deal with the EU, what that deal would contain, or how parliament and the public would react. Now that those facts are known, increasing numbers of MPs are demanding that the Brexit issue be returned to the public in a fresh referendum. But many unanswered questions about the practicalities remain. Here, we offer short responses to the most pressing of those questions, drawn from our report, to inform the parliamentary and growing public debate.
1. Is a referendum possible in the time available?
To hold a referendum, the UK parliament must first pass legislation. Before the bill leaves parliament, the Electoral Commission must assess the 'intelligibility' of the wording of the proposed referendum question – which usually takes ten weeks. This limits the ability to pass a bill very rapidly. Once the bill has received royal assent, sufficient time must be set aside to allow the Electoral Commission to designate lead campaigners, and for the campaign to take place.
In total, we estimate that the whole process – from introducing legislation to polling day – could be compressed to around 22 weeks. This is significantly less time than for previous referendums: for example the equivalent gap for the 2016 EU referendum was 13 months. But similar levels of urgency did not apply in these earlier cases.
The timetable could potentially be compressed even further, but doing so would risk delegitimising the result of the referendum – it is important given the sensitivity of the topic that the legislation is seen to be fully scrutinised, the question fair, and the campaigns adequately regulated. Continue reading →
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HOUSTON, March 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASBO) has bestowed its highest recognition for school financial responsibility, the Award of Merit for Purchasing Operations, to Harmony Public Schools.
Announced Thursday, March 7, 2019 at TASBO's annual awards ceremony, the designation recognizes Harmony for its exemplary purchasing practices for its 56 campuses statewide. In choosing recipients, TASBO reviewed various procedures and practices including organization, policies and procedures, contract operations, staff training and certification, use of technology, communication, and management of co-operative programs.
"Our highest financial responsibility as a public-school system is to be good stewards of the funds entrusted to our schools," Harmony Public Schools CEO Fatih Ay said. "Spending those funds in a way that is transparent, ethical, efficient, and always puts the needs of our students and staff first is critical to providing the best educational environment possible. We appreciate not only our Finance Department for its hard work and responsible practices, but also our teachers and team members at campuses across the state who help our schools operate as efficiently as possible without sacrificing educational quality."
The TASBO award was the second major recognition for Harmony's financial practices of the 2018-19 school year. In November, the Texas Education Agency awarded a 'Superior" financial accountability rating to each of Harmony's seven Texas districts in its annual School Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST). Six of those districts received a perfect 100 score.
About Harmony Public Schools: Harmony Public Schools are 56 high performing PreK-12 college preparatory charter schools throughout Texas. Harmony blends the highest standards and expectations, with a rigorous math- and science-centered curriculum and dedicated and engaged teachers and families to cultivate excellence and prepare students to succeed in college, careers and life. At Harmony Public Schools, we believe every child can succeed, and we are committed to helping them realize their full potential. To learn more about Harmony Public Schools and our 56 campuses across Texas, please visit: www.harmonytx.org, and follow us on Twitter at @HarmonyEdu and 'Like' us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HarmonyTexas.


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1. On January 3, 2017, Mr. Moser was issued 16,752 Restricted Stock Units ("RSUs") by NRG Energy, Inc. under NRG Energy, Inc.'s Amended and Restated Long Term Incentive Plan. Each RSU is equivalent in value to one share of NRG's Common Stock, par value $.01. On January 3, 2019, 5,584 shares vested. Mr. Moser elected to satisfy his tax obligation upon the exchange of common stock for RSUs having a value on the date of the exchange equal to the withholding obligation. This form reflects the surrender of 1,540 shares of common stock to satisfy the grantee's tax withholding obligation.
2. In connection with the vesting of the RSUs described above, 55 DERs vested. Dividend equivalent rights accrue on the reporting person's restricted stock units, market stock units or relative performance stock units, which become exercisable proportionately with the restricted stock units, market stock units or relative performance stock units to which they relate and may only be settled in NRG common stock. Each dividend equivalent right is the economic equivalent of one share of NRG common stock.
3. On January 4, 2018, Mr. Moser was issued 46,986 Restricted Stock Units ("RSUs") by NRG Energy, Inc. under NRG Energy, Inc.'s Amended and Restated Long Term Incentive Plan. Each RSU is equivalent in value to one share of NRG's Common Stock, par value $.01. On January 4, 2019, 15,662 shares vested. Mr. Moser elected to satisfy his tax obligation upon the exchange of common stock for RSUs having a value on the date of the exchange equal to the withholding obligation. This form reflects the surrender of 5,852 shares of common stock to satisfy the grantee's tax withholding obligation.
4. In connection with the vesting of the RSUs described above, 484 DERs vested. Dividend equivalent rights accrue on the reporting person's restricted stock units, market stock units or relative performance stock units, which become exercisable proportionately with the restricted stock units, market stock units or relative performance stock units to which they relate and may only be settled in NRG common stock. Each dividend equivalent right is the economic equivalent of one share of NRG common stock.
5. The Reporting Person was issued 24,906 Market Stock Units by NRG under the LTIP on January 4, 2016 that vested on January 4, 2019. On the vesting date the Reporting Person was entitled to receive a maximum of 49,812 shares of Common Stock if the company achieved 100% increase in total shareholder return since the grant date (the "Maximum"), 24,906 shares of Common Stock if there is no change in total shareholder return since the grant date (the "Target") or 18,679 shares of Common Stock if there is a 25% decrease in total shareholder return since the grant date (the "Threshold"). The Reporting Person would not have received any shares of Common Stock if total shareholder return had decreased by more than 25% since the grant date. The number of shares that the Reporting Person could have received in interpolated for total shareholder return fall between Threshold, Target and Maximum levels. On January 4, 2019 he vested in 49,812 shares.
6. In connection with the vesting of the MSUs described above, an incremental 1,539 DERs vested. Dividend equivalent rights accrue on the Reporting Person's restricted stock units, market stock units or relative performance stock units, which become exercisable proportionately with the restricted stock units, market stock units or relative performance stock units to which they relate and may only be settled in NRG common stock. Each dividend equivalent right is the economic equivalent of one share of NRG common stock.
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